Director Mann brought some of the characteristics of his previous film-noirs to this modernized western, borrowed from his own gritty, low-budget classics such asT-Men (1947)andRaw Deal (1948).The fiancee's father Judge Watson (Landers Stevens, the director's own father) is irate that Lucky is already an hour late - he expected as much from his prospective son-in-law: ".[Note: In the first filmed version of Victor Hugo's novelThe Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), Lon Chaney was transformed into the deformed hunchbacked bellringer for the silent film with extensive, convincing makeup (a wig, puffy cheeks, false teeth, fake eye, etc.(Was she pregnant?) In silhouette, the pretty runaway had attempted o commit suicide but was prevented.As part of their overall military strategy to save Zion from a machine invasion, Niobe (with Morpheus as her co-pilot) planned to navigate back to Zion in theHammercraft through a complex series of back tunnels, avoiding Sentinels (or "squids").